Back when Florida Governor Rick Scott tapped former House Majority Leader Carlos Lopez-Cantera to be his reelection campaign running mate, I knew Democrat Charlie Crist would counter Scott by also picking a Hispanic running mate.
Crist has chosen former Miami-Dade Democrat Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo to be his running mate.Why wouldn’t he pick a Hispanic woman? The ‘amigo’ vote in Florida is huge.
Both men need to shore up their respective Hispanic support in South Florida. Scott needs to get as many Cubans to vote for him, considering that the one-time ace-in-the whole voting bloc for Republicans, has seen a big decline in voter turnout over past several election cycles.
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Crist also needs to make nice with Cubans. However, this will be a harder challenge for the one-time “conservative Republican,” being that he has come out in support of lifting the U.S. embargo to Cuba.
After Crist came out in support of lifting the embargo, and saying that he wanted to visit the island, his favorability poll numbers dropped like a rock within the Cuban exile community.
To counter his Cuban coffee misstep, Crist has now released his first Spanish-language campaign ad featuring non-other than his running mate, Annette Taddeo.The Miami Herald posted the translation offered up by the Crist campaign:
“You work hard to pay the bills and raise your kids.
“As a working mother, I know how hard it is and Charlie Crist knows too.
“That is why I’m proud to be on the ballot with Charlie Crist as candidate for lieutenant governor.
“Together we will raise the minimum wage, reverse Rick Scott’s cut $1.3 billion to education, and fight for equal pay for women.
“It’s time to have leaders who will fight for all Floridians, not just the rich.”
“Vote for Charlie and me and that’s exactly what we’ll do.”
In the actual ad, Taddeo never mentions “$1.3 billion,” only that Rick Scott cut money from education, but whose paying attention to details, right?
The Crist campaign still has to overcome the recent mix-messaging that Taddeo and Crist have offered voters over opening up trade with communist Cuba.
Crist is all for doing business with Cuba.‘The Crist’ is on record of stating that the U.S. needed to open the “doors of freedom, and to open the markets of Florida businesses just ninety miles from our coast.”
Taddeo, not so much.
“I don’t think we should be doing business with Cuba”-Annette Taddeo